High Schools Blamed For Primary Problems

April 3, 1995

Relative to your editorial, you're right that "high school diplomas should mean something."But, you're wrong about the high school part! The learning problem must start long before high school. The primary education of a child must start at birth and continue through the teens through constant parental guidance.

Although high schools are at fault, the learning problem is not the high schools! The secondary basic education of children belongs to the grammar schools, and they've been failing miserably for over 40 years. The new math, open classrooms, look-see reading, busing, et al., with school boards and brilliant teachers reinventing the wheel have caused too much of this!

But the very greatest harm done to parents, teachers, schools and society itself has been done by the do-gooders, courts, lawyers and Dr. Spock when authority was taken away from parents and teachers to train the worst wild animal on this Earth _ the human child! Harsh words; but the truth hurts! Hence, no way to educate children without authority. Likewise, without authority, how can respect and responsibility for anything be instilled in children. It can't!